Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | At night , while John 's impatient body sleeps , I listen to the waves loosely slapping at the side of the stilled ship . |
| 2 | ‘ State Department officials were unavailable for comment , ’ the New York Times reported , thereby hinting at the source of the leak , but if the story had been aired as a trial balloon , it failed to lift off . |
| 3 | They seldom mean the declaration of hitherto unknown passion ; the long lost brother , thought vanished on an expedition down the Orinoco ; the missive from the old-fashioned firm of solicitors , discreetly hinting at ‘ something to your advantage ’ . |
| 4 | Perhaps it was the evasive eyes ; perhaps it was the permanent sly grin on the long narrow face which gave the impression that Skerritt was always secretly laughing at him . |
| 5 | There was a long , rather embarrassed silence during which Jack sensed that neither of the Shepherds believed a word they were saying , and were probably secretly scoffing at them . |
| 6 | Pots will be attractive to add instant colour and a path sweeps away under the pergola towards the rockery where it turns through a right angle in front of the rose bed , eventually ending at the vegetable plot that is neatly screened by the hedge . |
| 7 | Letters regularly occur in certain combinations and positions with , for example , the letter Q always being followed by U , and a number of letters rarely appearing at the end of a word ( e.g. , J V ) . |
| 8 | In gratitude for what I thought God had given me , a second chance , I ignored Leon 's boredom as I talked him through the files — just as I was ignoring Muriel 's messages to call her — and I ignored his rarely appearing at meetings with agricultural reps and men from the Milk Marketing Board ; ignored his non-involvement with any of the humdrum things essential to the running of a place like Sleet . |
| 9 | He now receded from the City , rarely appearing at the exchanges , even the Baltic , the scene of his most memorable deals in Russian tallow . |
| 10 | And perhaps in the minds of many , the memories of their tragic stay in Oxford were slowly softening at the edges . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , however , the book 's value as a work of reference is somewhat undermined by errors , some apparently hinting at a lack of background knowledge , while other statements are contradicted by the sources cited : e.g. John Graham , Lord Kilpont becomes John Stewart , Lord Kinpont — a gentleman otherwise unknown to history ; Balcarre 's and Barclay 's regiments of horse are confused ; Sir James Scott of Rossie becomes Sir James Scott of Rosyth ; and variant spellings of proper names abound . |
| 12 | From this plinth had , a long time ago , fallen sideways a tall figure which now lay face-down in a puddle , narcissistically gazing at itself . |
| 13 | The work of different mosaicists might be visible here , so hinting at their number and therefore the probable diversity of subsequent developments . |
| 14 | Few things were more demoralising than to stand uselessly by while other men demonstrated their professional competence ; Kerrison , that connoisseur of death , literally sniffing at the body ; the photographers , taciturn , preoccupied with lighting and angles ; Inspector Doyle , in charge of a murder case at last , impresario of death , tense with the suppressed excitement of a child at Christmas gloating over a new toy . |
| 15 | This time Alison refused the bait , merely gazing at me with her large bovine eyes . |
| 16 | They have been particularly hard on Leopold Mozart , who is portrayed as a stern , tyrannical disciplinarian , dragging the little boy and his gifted sister round Europe like a pair of performing monkeys , constantly nagging at his adolescent son , and finally growing old and bitter alone in Salzburg after Wolfgang had left for Vienna and married against his father 's wishes . |
| 17 | Yet neither club commands very great support and even a Second Division Hartlepool or Darlington perhaps struggling at the foot of the division would be unlikely to attract more than 56,000 per game . |
| 18 | As one said , what Easton has , unlike many areas , is ‘ ordinary civil policing ’ ( FN 16/11/87 , p. 6 ) , so that there is a continuity with policing in Easton before the current troubles began : ‘ I was in Easton years ago when it was the old station , though basically policing at Easton has n't changed from when I was here years ago . |
| 19 | She is certainly very concerned with moral themes , but I do n't think that she 's moralistic in the sense of hectoringly preaching at erm at an audience to do such a and not to do other certain other kinds of things . |
| 20 | A loud banging at the front door stopped both of them in their tracks . |
| 21 | He was cut short by a loud knocking at the front door . |
| 22 | It was dawn on 13 November 1989 when there was a loud knocking at David Reed 's front door . |
| 23 | ‘ It ’ was all happening at sea . |
| 24 | So when staff are literally fuming at each other , and wanting to sue , the simple solution is to install an electrostatic air filter . |
| 25 | She says she was only driving at about 25 mph . |
| 26 | She never managed to meet up with Vivienne and , as there did n't seem to be much happening at Dingwalls , we decided to drive down to Brighton , all of us crammed into the back of the Mini van . |
| 27 | ‘ But say we accept what you 're obviously driving at , who might have wanted her dead ? ’ |
| 28 | Athelstan sat looking at her in wonderment , constantly marvelling at the difference in women , contrasting this hag to the beauty of Lady Isabella . |
| 29 | We can not tell which it was by merely looking at the facts ; we have to ask what his purpose actually was . |
| 30 | She was the epitome of fashionable glamour and , merely looking at her , Constance felt swamped . |